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It's all guesswork. Word sensitive could mean those things, but it could also mean one of the three owners of the program saying "no".

Re Turkish purchase of Eurofighters: "There are still some hurdles to be jumped over" for Turkey. One of them is "quite sensitive". Make of that what you will"

Having supply chain issues now doesn't mean that we won't also have them later on. We also don't know what supply chain issues apart from the titanium parts. If we are still unable to get the parts and equipment necessary from Russia for example, issues continue. Supply is lacking for all over...

Obviously typo by the editor.

Too American/Israeli and too Russian in that order. Algeria maybe in the far future.

“Our goal is to finish the first prototype in the first quarter of next year and to start flight tests,” says TAI chief executive Mehmet Demiroglu. That aircraft will be followed by a second prototype due to get airborne in mid-2026, and then a third following early in 2027. “We have promised a...

So it was a Hermes and not just 129s. Horrible look for Iran. What are those quad launchers, for drones or flares?

We of course don't have the details and it's conjecture, but I do think OGM's request for a more conventional design did lead to this back doorless design, OGM being the launch customer. And DzKK requests were shafted as a result. To restart the clock, Kotil had mentioned in 2022 that first...

New T925 scale model from Paris Air Show.

NATO E-3s flying over Van in the last month was unprecedented, never saw it before in the last decade. And Kürecik is still active.

That's a pretty nice infographic. Sad that longest ranged missiles we have just go <280km. :)

Yes, it's not just A320. Nearly every single Airbus or Boeing flying today have a TAI built part on it from small bolts supplied to Spirit for 737Max production to elevators on 787s, ailerons on A350s. There are plenty of tier 1 suppliers in Turkey and for many parts they are the sole suppliers...

Indonesia and the AH140 based Merah Putih frigate will be the launch customer of Atmaca VL. And also the first export of MIDLAS?

Any kind of easy capital brought by these contracts is good business.

"Development" is a loaded word in aircraft production. TAI have signed multiple contracts with multiple countries. TAI Azerbaijan, joint training models with Pakistan, TAI Malaysia etc. It's been announced that all these offices are also related to Kaan development aside from other larger...

@Strong AI , Saudi or bust.

"Turkish Aerospace "very close" to announcing second international customer for KAAN after Indonesia - CEO at Paris Air Show. Says issues such as F-35 'kill switch' debate, availability, price, tech transfer, MRO, etc all play to KAAN's strengths"

Getting closer.

I think at least 1 Hürkuş 1 is in inventory as Hürkuş HYEU.

I'll argue we never focused exclusively on the west. Stuff we built or harvested in the past was only good for those countries, now the stuff we build and harvest are sold all over because countries to our east have grown as well, like we did. Iraq now is our single biggest trade partner because...